Re: Sanselan

Interesting, this was on my To Do list for today. :-)

It looks like Sanselan will handle most of the reading of the EXIF 
metadata that we would need to expose for searching.  It appears that 
it already will read all of the EXIF and IPTC metadata.  I'm confused 
by some of what it says on the page for the project about not being 
able to read a JPEG file but it can read the JPEG metadata.  A 
question for their dev list, no doubt.

However, for our purposes, Sanselan appears to give us everything we 
need to fill in the information in the repository.  I believe we will 
need to copy the information out of the image and into nodes within 
the JCR.  That way we will be able to use the JCR querys to search the data.

And, joining with each other to help grow the communities would be a 
good idea.  That seems like it is going to be the trickiest part to this.

Angie

At 12:36 PM 7/14/2008, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>Would folks please take a look at Sanselan (Java classes for reading and
>writing images, also in the Incubator) to see how the gallery project might
>make use of it? Sanselan could use help in growing its community, and I
>believe that the gallery project could make use of Sanselan, e.g., format
>conversion and meta-data handling).
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>         --- Noel
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